Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and OpenOffice

[Net Llama!]

On 02/25/03 20:11, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 February 2003 9:14 pm, someone claiming to be Collins wrote:
>> On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:30 am, Tim Wunder wrote:
>> > Anybody try Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and get the OpenOffice RPM to install?
>> > My son's having difficult getting the rpm to take. I don't have the
>> > specific error handy (sorry), so I'm just looking for verification that
>> > it can be done. I've tried the RPM from Mandrake's Cooker site, and
>> > that's failing, too.
>>
>> My approach would be:  get the binary package from OO.org, but then I'm
>> never a fan of RPM. <grin>
> 
> heh... 
> That's what we did. I prefer compiling source and installing as RPM via 
> checkinstall. But I'm certainly *not* going to compile OOo...

why not?  don't have 18 hours to kill?  ;)

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